Scams on dating sites from nigeria today

He put himself through college, and after working as a Nigerian soap opera actor and door-to-door men’s clothing salesman, he clawed his way into journalism.

Before that, he used to hang out with nomadic cow-herding kids, children who sell bottled water by the roadside, and budding scam artists.

Ten years ago, Sheye and Danjuma, who are both in their mid-30s, say they could make up to 2 million naira—about ,000—per Yahoo job, but the “US are very wise” now, Sheye says.

They typically only make about 0 per “client” these days, though they know other scammers who still rake in millions of naira through the email schemes.

Nigerians aren’t the only ones committing international advance fee fraud, but nearly one-fifth of all such scams originate in the West African country.

“We don’t thief,” Danjuma says.) They told me about one elaborate scam, called (or “Let’s go” in Igbo, one of the languages spoken in Nigeria), that they occasionally pull on their countrymen.He said there was no way that his dudes would talk for less than 0. So I offered 0 for a rare glimpse at the human faces behind the syntax-challenged spam. I sat down with Sheye and Danjuma* on the back patio of a fancy duplex in an upscale neighborhood in one of the country’s main cities, and the two dished on their craft, constantly interrupting each other as they downed bottles of Nigerian Star lager and chain-smoked.Though they lie for a living, Sheye insisted, “We are telling you the fact and the truth.” Sheye and Danjuma have a name for the advance-fee email scams, in which victims agree to to send money to a stranger, banking on the promise of love or fast money.He knows if he meets “a Saudi Arabia person,” he’s in luck.“They don’t know what to do with money.” “Whenever we want to fraud somebody, we will know what you are worth,” Danjuma says. ” Even “how much you have in your account.” They glean all this information just by developing a tight relationship with the dupe.